svchost.exe

Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)

This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.

Warning16 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of svchost.exe.

Overview

svchost.exe has 53 known versions, the most recent one is 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). It is started as a Windows Service called 'obrvj' with the name 'DcomLaunch' and described as “Bietet Startfunktionalität für DCOM-Dienste.”. . It is run under the context of the LOCAL SERVICE account. This is executed as a shared service (which simply means that this service can share a process with other Win32 services). During installation the program adds a job to the Task Scheduler that will runs weekly. The average file size is about 18.92 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Microsoft Corporation by the certification authority Microsoft Corporation. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0006% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 21.62 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 42.23 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 48.42 KB per minute for reads and 14.92 KB per minute for writes.

What is svchost.exe?

Host Process for Windows Tasks is a generic process which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs rather than EXEs. At startup TASKHOST checks the Services portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based services that it needs to load, and then loads them.

Details

File name:

svchost.exe

Publisher:

Microsoft Corporation

Product name:

Host Process for Windows Services

Description:

Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

Typical file path:

C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe

Original name:

svchost.exe.mui

Certificate

Issued to:

Microsoft Corporation

Authority (CA):

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration date:

Friday, June 13, 2014

Programs installed in

(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Host Process for Windows Services.)

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